High Fructose Corn Syrup + Bees = Scarlet Honey

Everyone’s seen cocktail cherries. Some people even like them. Those people are called assholes. That’s right, assholes. Because they request them under some presumed sense of elegance stemming from this:

which eventually looks like this:

And those are then served in classic cocktails, like FDR used to drink during prohibition with all the movers and shakers. Except you ruined yours with a fake cherry, red number 40 and HFCS.

So, what’s that got to do with a bunch of bees making red honey. Or bees glowing red in the sunset.